“We need to stand up, all of us at this moment. Less judgment, more fortitude. Meet this moment, not for ourselves, but for each other, for this country.” — Governor Gavin Newsom #Resist
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“We need to stand up, all of us at this moment. Less judgment, more fortitude. Meet this moment, not for ourselves, but for each other, for this country.” — Governor Gavin Newsom #Resist
After last week Trump is officially out of the Ukraine - Russia negotiations (again), he didn’t have any cards just an Epstein file with his name all over it.
There are some cowardly Goddamn Republicans in Congress who could end this shit right now. If you're one of them...and seeing this (and believe me, some of them are) fuck each and every one of you. Yes...you. I'd have stated it more eloquently...but that wouldn't have carried the needed emphasis.
She’s also stating the earth is flat.
We knew — we knew — that hotter seas meant stronger hurricanes, that warmer air meant wetter storms, that rising seas meant higher surges. We had the science. We had the evidence. And still we chose to accelerate, to subsidize fossil fuels, to silence the truth. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahj...
Folks, I'm going to say this once. You can freely and openly condemn Netanyahu and his cartel of war criminals and neofascists without being labelled "anti-Semitic". Don't let them tar you with that particular brush. That's the last refuge of these scoundrels, and it's not working any longer.
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Someone serving a 20-year sentence for her part in the sex trafficking scheme, who is seeking a pardon from the President, may not be the most reliable narrator.
Governor Newsom signed a deal with Denmark. Has Taco signed any deals? Kissing Putin’s @$$ is not a Deal! #newsom #denmark
Never forget that God saved Gavin Newsom in Butler, PA so that Gavin can save America from the MAGA Nazis!
A woman who criticized Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to their facility in an interview has been transferred out to another facility which houses violent offenders. Trump’s DOJ is now punishing people who criticize his sex offender friends. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
If you aren’t uncomfortable learning our country’s history, you are learning propaganda.
Oh my.
Time to stop saying Epstein files and start using the correct name, the Trump files.
Today, the president threatened to militarily occupy numerous American cities without authorization or rationale. He was also praised by a notorious child sex trafficker, with whom he obviously cut a deal, to cover up evidence he sexually abused kids. The GOP is united behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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They’re lighting democracy on fire.
And every one of them had to sign a nondisclosure agreement first.
When all this turns to shit, there'll be FBI agents, DC National Guard members, ICE agents & police all excusing their trampling of human rights, the law & due process by claiming "The President told me to. I was just following orders." Pfft. In fact, the truth is they WANT to do this. #USPolitics
It’s probably just a coincidence that Bolton’s home was raided on the day some of the Epstein files are due to finally be released to Congress. Is this that lawfare I keep hearing about?
Some call us shortsighted if we focus on retaking Congress in the midterms rather than on what comes next. No! That’s like calling shortsighted those on the Titanic who focused on avoiding the iceberg rather than on the rest of the voyage. There’s no “rest of the voyage” if we hit the damn iceberg!
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To Texas with Love ❤️ From the people of California
I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please. The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
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NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
Jon asks why the GOP's "one is too many" logic applies only to immigrants and not mass shootings
Just saw all your comments from last night’s post and someone shared a pic, Orlando showed up and used chalk to bring the rainbow crosswalk back! We love this so much!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
We knew — we knew — that hotter seas meant stronger hurricanes, that warmer air meant wetter storms, that rising seas meant higher surges. We had the science. We had the evidence. And still we chose to accelerate, to subsidize fossil fuels, to silence the truth. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahj...
Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.
Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
Trump Regime protects child predator. Trump Regime punishes inmate that criticizes child predator's preferential treatment. Inmate in for theft gets moved to higher security prison. Maxwell the child trafficker in club fed. Trump protecting the pedophiles. www.thedailybeast.com/inmate-who-c...
Maybe Ron DeSantis can use crime hub Mar-a-Lago now that a judge ordered Alligator Alcatraz to be shut down, criminals frequent there and it already houses a criminal, so prime location.
The people who reflexively say that everything happening in the news every day is just a distraction from the Epstein files are allowing themselves to get distracted by the Epstein files from many other things that are incredibly important also.
This 👇🏾 “Why do they need masks? They’re federal officials, they’re paid by the taxpayers. They should be doing their jobs in a way that’s lawful and constitutional, and that’s part of the job.” DC Mayor Bowser questions why so many federal officers in the capital continue to cover their faces.
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If only John Bolton had had the Epstein Files, his house never would have been raided.
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN Alabama's state Senate map for violating VRA sec 2 by diluting Black voting power in Montgomery. Alabama must now draw a new compliant map. Status conference is set for Aug. 28 to facilitate remedial proceedings. www.democracydocket.com/cases/alabam...
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
Night Sky on Mars #nasadailyupdates
I think the World Cup should seriously reconsider having their event in the USA.
I expect major movement in Texas tomorrow. No one is covering the GOP's redistricting scheme with as much context and analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you pro-democracy news and information. Support their work by signing up today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
NEW: Oregon and Pennsylvania are the latest to reject the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to acquire states’ private voter data, according to letters obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water"
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego has been RELEASED from prison and is headed home to Maryland to be with his family. Judge Xinis has an order in place requiring a 72 hour notice if ICE decides to detain and deport him to a third country. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
Otherwise known as communism.
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
Watch @kendallyb.bsky.socialtalk show was how Kristi Noem is living rent free in military housing that is reserved for coast guard leadership in order to better hide her affair with Corey Lewandowski. This is causing a ripple effect to active duty service members not getting base housing
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
The ruling sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, who had filed a suit alleging that the facility built in the Florida Everglades violated federal environmental laws.
Mamdani holds a 10 point lead over Cuomo in NYC’s general election for mayor, per a new poll. Meanwhile, Adams trails in fourth place behind GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa.
“There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing." Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges.
We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.
A reminder that Brazil arrested and charged their former dictator Bolsonaro with planning a coup and trying to overturn the 2022 elections in their country. If only the United States had done the same instead of giving the plotter of a coup full totalitarian power of the govt.
By 2030, 1 in 4 women in developed countries will remain childfree. Up to 45% will be single by choice. Society will frame this as a crisis. Governments will panic over birth rates. This is about choice though… It's about women walking away from the roles that kept men comfortable and powerful.
It’s despicable that people with their faces covered are allowed to arrest anyone they want without ever identifying themselves. That should be a crime.
“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: "I don’t work for you, sir. I work for the American people”
AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this
The Big Beautiful Betrayal was passed in the dead of the night by 215 to 214. They’re going to be held accountable for this at next year’s midterms.
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
🔥 @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social : “I don’t work for you, sir.”
They lynched Allen Brooks—and sold postcards of it. 10,000 watched. Kids cheered. No one was charged. They called it justice. We call it genocide. Now they’re banning books so you never find out. 📚 ERASED tells the truth they fear. Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
Speaker Pro Tempore: You are to direct your comments to the chair. Jeffries: You know what's interesting? Every time I come on this floor, I can use sharp language, he can use sharp language, you choose to admonish me. I don't work for you sir. I work for the American people.
When a Government is scientifically illiterate, but doesn’t know it, then its actions (or inactions) can be a recipe for the dismantling of an informed and enlightened Democracy. #ScienceMatters
They will NEVER silence us on the House Floor. Or anyplace else.
Massachusetts decided to tax the rich, and collected $2.6 billion over the last 10 months. That’s $2.6 billion more to spend on transportation and education.
He’s not gonna like this.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
So: 1) Takes food from children 2) Gives the richest man in the world a tax cut 3) Makes the deficit worse
JOINT DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STATEMENT ON PASSAGE OF THE GOP TAX SCAM Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Whip Katherine Clark and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar just released the following statement:
"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
Caught in cosmic alignment. This red arc is a distant galaxy, its light bent into a glowing partial Einstein ring by a massive galaxy 2.7B light-years away. A rare lensing gem spotted by a citizen scientist. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Nayyeri et al.
It’s hardly surprising that the same people who were fine with older Americans dying from Covid have no issues with cutting Medicare.
MUST WATCH: They didn’t just burn Tulsa — they burned proof. Black wealth. Black futures. Gone. And now they’re banning books so you never learn it happened. 📚 ERASED tells the truth they’re scared of. Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years. Most have not been convicted. With @invisible.institute